Ingredients

1 cup (2 sticks butter)

2 cups sugar

2 tsp. vanilla extract

4 eggs

1 cup+ 2 Tbl. unbleached flour

3/4 cup powdered unsweetened Cocoa

1/2 tsp. baking powder

1/4 tsp. salt

8 oz cream cheese (softened but not runny)

1/3 c sugar

1 egg

1 cup chopped nuts and/or chocolate chips

Preparation

  1. Heat oven to 350 Grease 13 X 9 x 2 pan.
  2. Microwave butter in large bowl for 2 minutes or until melted then stir in sugar and vanilla.
  3. Add eggs, one at a time beating well after each egg. Add flour, cocoa, baking powder, and salt. Beat until well blended.
  4. In a separate bowl, mix cream cheese, sugar and 1 egg and blend.
  5. Put most of the brownie mix in pan, then put the cream cheese mixture on the brownie mix in 3 stripes. Put the rest of the brownie mix dollops on the stripes. Then, drag a knife through to make design-don’t worry…it will look good and you’ll figure out how to do it!
  6. Sprinkle with nuts and/or chocolate chips.
  7. Bake 35-40 minutes or until brownies begin to pull away from sides of pan.
  8. Cool completely.